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Here’s the idiom 「人一己百」, with its definition and practical application described below.
What others can do or learn in one go, you should do or learn a hundred times. A metaphor for trying to catch up with others with a hundred times the effort.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
rén yī jǐ bǎi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yan4 yat1 gei2 baak3
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